Senate News

United States lawmakers remain underinvested in crypto, but this is likely to change in 2022.

“The report really is ready to go and I would expect we will drop it — I hate to say it again — in coming weeks," said Jerome Powell.

With the addition of Caroline Pham’s and Summer Mersinger’s names sent to the Senate for confirmation, the U.S. president has the opportunity to completely reshape the CFTC leadership.

A bill that seeks to regulate the local cryptocurrency industry has passed the the Senate of Paraguay.

This week in crypto regulation was marked by officials expressing contradictory views on how to approach digital assets.

As stablecoins issuers were put under the pressure of Democratic witnesses, Senator Pat Toomey released his own set of regulatory principles.

“What is clear is that if we embrace these developments, Australia has an enormous opportunity to capitalize on the convergence between finance and technology,” Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said.

With BTC price under $57,000, bears appear to have a slight advantage in this week’s $950 million BTC options expiry.

Saule Omarova’s nomination for Comptroller of the Currency faces policy objections from Democrats and Senate banking committee members.

Kraken Australia’s managing director is concerned that a proposed new licensing regime for crypto exchanges could collapse the vibrancy of the industry down under.

38-year-old Senate candidate Morgan Harper said she would be "in learning mode" on the crypto space and solicited comments from her followers.

The country’s legislature has passed a law that would impose financial monitoring on crypto platforms.

The Bitcoin ETF approval has been the biggest, but by no means the only, policy-related story of the last week.

In response to a letter from the U.S. calling on Facebook to halt its stablecoin and crypto wallet projects, Diem stated that it “is not Facebook. We are an independent organization.”

Debt ceiling uncertainty erodes trust in the dollar, the DOJ announces the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and the SEC investigates Circle.